Then again, maybe we are given the right to life when we can fend for ourselves. Yet this has terrible ramifications for the nursing infants who would perish without constant care. Furthermore, even fully-grown adults cannot survive independently, if we consider that our continued existence depends on the resources around us.
The question of when we are human is one that is too often sidestepped in this political, moral, and religious debate. It is – perhaps – the most fundamental ground to lay, given that on average 3,315 unborn children are aborted every day in the United States.
I continued around the display and came to the third and final panel. The cold air helped me keep my food in my stomach when I saw it. This one also contained an enormous image of an embryo. I could see its toes and skull and the red tissue surrounding it, only this was not a still picture of a developing fetus.
This embryo lay mangled in a white plastic tray. It had likely been vacuumed out by a suction curette during a common abortive procedure called suction aspiration. The embryo had been sucked through a hollow, knife-edged tube, and its parts had been crudely reassembled for documentation. A dime-sized intestinal track rested below the now empty, twisted ribcage. The nine-week-old fetus stared at me like the dead face of Emmet Till stared at America from the cover of Jet magazine on the eve of the Civil Rights Movement.
I hoped that I was living in such an eve, and that this towering display, while so minuscule in size compared with the nation around it, would serve to impact those who saw it.
I was sickened by those photographs, but I think it was worth it. After all, one of the causes of our country plunging into World War II was Americans becoming aware of the true brutality of the Holocaust.
I buttoned my jacket and turned south toward the dormitories. People would be coming any time now. I was ready to have some good discussions, hopefully learn from others and invest in them, and help save some lives.
Article comments
1 - klondikekitty
All i want to know is, what gives you or anyone else the right to decide what happens to somebody you don't even know? I personally believe that abortion is not the best option for an unwanted pregnancy, but I do not believe I have the right to tell any other woman what she can or cannot do regarding it -- it is HER body and HER decision, hopefully reached after carefully considering all the options open to her, not to be decided for her by the President, Congress or the Supreme Court. Everyone talks about their wholehearted support for the U.S. Constitution, but what happened to the basic right for freedom of religion?? That freedom also includes the right to be an atheist or an agnostic who may not share some people's beliefs regarding abortion. NO OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURE IN AMERICA is being considered for exclusion from healthcare reform, and I do not believe this should be, either. THIS IS SO WRONG!!!
2 - Ruvy
I was sickened by those photographs, but I think it was worth it. After all, one of the causes of our country plunging into World War II was Americans becoming aware of the true brutality of the Holocaust
I'm not going to argue the issue of abortion here - that is not what your article is about. Your article is about the best way to present an anti-abortion viewpoint, and how to educate the public to come round to your point of view.
In that case, learn your history. Nobody in America gave a damn about the Nazi death camps except the desperate Jews whose relatives were being killed, and the Protestant clergymen who reported on it in detail. Reports that were largely ignored in the States until the first death camps were liberated in 1945.
Don't pretend that America's entry into the war had anything to do with the systematic slaughter the Nazis engaged in while in power. It didn't. Even as the America war effort proceded, even after the Americans had profited from the fruit of breaking the Enigma code, and had invaded Normandy in June 1944, they did absolutely nothing to stop the Nazi slaughter in the camps.
Pick another reason to argue against abortion. If you wish to stick to the "holocaust" angle, use the fact that far more fetuses have died in abortions than the Nazis, Soviets or Communist Chinese have slaughtered altogether. But be ready to have solid answers if someone hands you a bundle of baby, saying that your efforts convinced them not to have that abortion they were planning to.
3 - jennifer
abotion is really bad, you are really killing a person, they could have a life, but you ruin it adoption is always better then death!!!!